The Professional Services Council announced on Monday that PSC has provided its detailed recommendations to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on steps to mitigate the negative consequences of a government shutdown from a lapse in appropr... Read more
Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, took a tour at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding division to view work on nuclear-powered vessels. Read more
Disease diagnostics company INanoBio has received a four-year, $5.4M contract to help an Icahn School of Medicine-led consortium develop a prototype portable detector for illnesses caused by weapons of mass destruction. Read more
John DeSimone, vice president of cybersecurity and special missions at Raytheon’s intelligence, information and services arm, has said that the public and private sectors need to undergo a cultural shift to better protect critical infrastructure... Read more
The Brandon Hall Group has chosen Noblis and the Center for Creative Leadership as recipients of the 2019 Brandon Hall HCM Excellence Silver Award for Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Program. Read more
The U.S. Air Force has posted a request for information to seek potential sources of cyber capabilities. Read more
United Technologies Corp. will support volunteer projects under an expanded partnership with nonprofit Engineers Without Borders USA. Read more
Raytheon has received an $80.4M contract modification to continue producing MK54 Lightweight Torpedo parts for the U.S. Navy and foreign military sales customers. Read more
Boeing has received a $51.6M contract to obtain advanced capability mission computers for the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18 combat jets. The service branch is obligating the full contract amount at the time of award to fund the procurement of 136 aircraft... Read more
Lockheed Martin is preparing its Orion spacecraft for testing activities at NASA’s Plum Brook Station in Cleveland ahead of the Artemis 1 uncrewed lunar orbit test flight, NASA Spaceflight reported Friday. Read more
Colsa Corp. has secured a $69.6M contract modification to perform command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support services to the U.S. Air Force. Read more
Woolpert has introduced a software service that will enable customers to store and manage access to their proprietary geospatial imagery data in a cloud environment. Read more
Lt. Gen. John Thompson, commander of the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center, said the service branch certified SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket to perform national security launch missions for “certain orbits,” SpaceNews reported Saturday. Read more
The U.S. Marine Corps is looking to use a Bell-made unmanned tiltrotor aircraft for efforts to protect naval ships, according to officials, Military.com reported Wednesday. Read more
AWS to Incorporate Cloud Computing Curriculum to Select Virginia Schools; Teresa Carlson Quoted
Amazon Web Services has partnered with the Virginia community to implement its cloud computing curriculum to select universities within the state, Bizjournals.com reported Friday. Read more